16 students have been denied entry into school and 85 students are at high risk of also being denied entry if we can not maintain payments.
An urgent matter has come to our attention on Monday 4 March 2013.
There are currently 101 children belonging to families who survived the 1984 November Genocide who are in need of support for their education. £7500 is needed to ensure that the education of these children continues. Registered charity Seva84 and other organisations have highlighted many times that drugs and crime is rampant in Tilak Vihar, it is believed that 200 children belonging to families who survived the November 1984 genocide have already died to drugs since 1984. For this reason it is pivotal that these students remain in education.
Issues similar to this have occurred the previous years, where sangat have intervened and helped families to pay the necessary fee’s, but this year more students then previously have been unable to pay their fee’s which is partly due to the population in each home increasing which puts pressure on household spending, particularly if there are family members in need of health treatment.
All week, Seva84 have held a number of meetings with respected elders of the community, key figures in the Delhi youth, representatives of other organisations in Delhi, members of the school – including the head teacher, and of course the respective parents involved.
Together we drew up a plan of action, which effectively will stop mass problems like this from occurring in the future. This plan is a part of our wider scope to make the families independent and self sufficient. The head teacher is key in this and has agreed to implement the measures we have put before him.
There are many families who survived the 1984 November genocide who are living in severe poverty. There are many students in other colonies who’s education stops after the age of 10/11. Almost 600,000 RS is needed to pay the overdue tuition fee’s of 101 students in Tilak Vihar (which is around £74 per student on average).
We plan to release a video highlighting the reality of this situation within the next 7 days.
Please Note: Such a mass scale problem regarding education will not occur in the future due to the preventative measures we have put in place, however in order for the children to continue their education, a payment of almost Rs 600,000 is needed.
Please support Seva84 in raising £7,500 to ensure that the education of 101 Sikh children continues.
Seva84 have agreed to give regular payments directly to the school until the overdue amount is paid, on this basis the 16 students were allowed entry back into the school.
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